Soldato
You took the bait then ?
hook, line and sinker
You took the bait then ?
no? but any time you go into countryside with a pack of hounds, quads, spades, shotguns, dressed in swanky attire, riding a horse and tooting a horn then, ye, you're going fox hunting. Look, there's plausible deniability that might stand up in a court, because you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they were definitely going fox hunting.. but they ****ing were, weren't they?So any time I go into the garden with my spade and dog I'm potentially going fox hunting? There's a number of things they could have been doing with terriers, quads and spades... They could have been going to dig out another dog that got stuck down a rabbit hole. You may well be right, but I prefer proof instead of assumptions.
"I prefer proof instead of assumptions" unless it doesn't suit you.No, we know she appeared to be charging the horse at the protesters, we don't know what happened first because the footage starts when the protestors are already talking and approaching the horse and rider. If you wanted to make a group of people look terrible a good way of doing that is to record them, push them until they snap and then crop the footage to show that you'd done nothing wrong. People don't just charge horses at people, it would take provocation to make someone do that.
Who cares man!!! Class war now!!! Facts be damned!!!!
you think they've got the drag for the riders to sniff out? hahahaThere's distinct lack of any hounds there...are they going to use dowsing rods to find foxes?
There's distinct lack of any hounds there...are they going to use dowsing rods to find foxes?
The thread title should be 'is it acceptable to grab at someone's horse when they are riding it'
The hunt only releases the hounds immediately prior to the start, they don't let them out of the truck until the off and everyone is in place and ready. They are far from domesticated creatures. The more law abiding might hold them in the truck if there actually was likelihood of an actual fox being about. You can't explain to them that they must ignore "real" fox scents and only follow those laid by the drag man. And the unfortunate woman is from an old family of high class hoteliers, no doubt she'll come under the toff banner from the usual Swampy brigade
The thread title should be 'is it acceptable to grab at someone's horse when they are riding it'
That's a common myth. Hounds bite the back of the fox's neck by instinct, and their jaws are strong enough to break it instantly. Death is immediate. Unlike cats, hounds don't toy with their prey. The chances of a fox being 'torn apart whilst alive' are extremely slim.
I think watch the full video then comment would be better.
I'm not in anyway supportive of fox hunting, but on this occasion, I certainly side with the rider.
Some of us have to pay for that kind of treatment!
Except its not a full video though is it? What about the events that lead up to this that aren't shown? You think this excerpt is the whole story and it hasn't been edited to show one side in a good/bad light?